Linking Aadhar with post office savings accounts mandatory

Srinagar: After making Aadhaar mandatory for filing income tax returns, the government has now made it mandatory to link Aadhaar with savings accounts.

In this backdrop, all the esteemed account holders of the Department of Posts are informed that the last date for seeding of Aadhaar numbers with the accounts has been has been fixed as 31/12/2017 by the government. All the account holders of the department of posts are requested to contact their respective post offices along with Aadhaar card/Aadhaar number and get the Aadhaar numbers seeded with their accounts as a mandatory exercise.

All the esteemed account holders are also requested to seed their mobile numbers with their accounts to get real time SMS alerts of transactions.